indignant - Story 72229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was a labyrinth of forgotten things, a dimly lit repository of years past. She was tasked with clearing it out, and the task felt increasingly unwelcome. Then she found the box, tucked away behind a stack of old photo albums. "Jessica's Scholarly Stuff." She stared at it.

She slowly lifted the lid. Her cheeks burned.

She found her mother in the living room, knitting. She dropped the box at her feet. "Do you have any explanation for this?" she asked.

Emotion: indignant

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.44 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indignant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 indignant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indignant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indignant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.614
`C`	0.369
`de`	0.305
`que`	0.295
`😠`	0.288

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.363
`soon`	-0.302
`optimistic`	-0.270
`உற்ச`	-0.261
`gradually`	-0.256